Postdigital Dialogues on Critical Pedagogy, Liberation Theology and Information Technology

Peter McLaren is Distinguished Professor in Critical Studies at Chapman University, USA, and Co-Director of the Paulo Freire Democratic Project and International Ambassador for Global Ethics and Social Justice. He is also Emeritus Professor of Urban Education, UCLA, USA, and Emeritus Professor of Educational Leadership, Miami University of Ohio, USA. He is also Honorary Director of the Center for Critical Studies in Education in Northeast Normal University, China. He is the author/editor of over forty books including Pedagogy of Insurrection (2015).Petar Jandric is Professor of Digital Learning and Programme Director of BSc Informatics at the Zagreb University of Applied Sciences, Croatia, and visiting Associate Professor at the University of Zagreb, Croatia. He is the author/editor of six books including The Digital University: A Dialogue and Manifesto (2018).

Postdigital Dialogues on Critical Pedagogy, Liberation Theology and Information Technology welds together biography, treatise, and analysis in service of excavating the possibilities for human liberation under the staggeringly complex conditions of a technologically saturated, ecologically ruinous state of late capitalism. Wide ranging and lucid, Peter McLaren and Petar Jandric draw on decades of research, personal experience, and critical philosophy in order to offer thought-provoking insights and practical ways forward.

• AcknowledgementsForeword, Peter Hudis (Oakton Community College, USA)Introductions1. Peter McLaren: Portrait of a Revolutionary, Petar Jandric2. Petar Jandric: Portrait of a Hunter Gatherer, Sarah Hayes Revolutionary Critical Pedagogy Meets Digital Technology3. Revolutionary Critical Pedagogy Is Made by Walking: In a World Where Many Worlds Coexist, 4. The Critical Challenge of Networked Learning: Using Information Technologies in the Service of Humanity Revolutionary Critical Pedagogy Meets Liberation Theology5. From Liberation to Salvation: Revolutionary Critical Pedagogy Meets Liberation Theology 6. Karl Marx and Liberation Theology: Dialectical Materialism and Christian Spirituality in, against and beyond Contemporary Capitalism 7. Paulo Freire and Liberation Theology: The Christian Consciousness of Critical Pedagogy Revolutionary Critical Pedagogy in, against and beyond Transnational Capitalism8. We Must Save Ourselves: Revolutionary Critical Pedagogy in, against and beyond Global Neoliberal Fascism9. We Want What Others Want: Ayn Rand, René Girard and Acquisitive Mimesis 10. Siddhartha Meeting Jesus in the Desert of the Real: Christian Ecopedagogy in and for the Anthropocene 11. Postdigital Science and Education, Petar Jandric12. Reclaiming the Present or a Return to the Ash Heap of the Future? (Peter McLaren)Afterword: After All the Words: Faith and Action, Michael A. Peters (Beijing Normal University, China)ReferencesIndex